Re: 有中国人乎?

[John Henry]

On Apr 14, 11:17 am, Steve Holden <st... at holdenweb.com> wrote:
> Penny Y. wrote:
> > Steve Holden 写道:
>
> >> 但学会从未是立即, 和将需要一点时间。
>
> > What do you mean?
> > If I understand you correctly, maybe it should be,
>
> > 学习python不可一日而成,需要循序渐进.
>
> > Am I right?
>
> I have no idea. Babelfish (from which I obtained my reply as well as
> whatever understanding I had of the original inquiry) translated my reply as
>
> But the academic society never is immediately, with will need time
>
> whereas yours becomes
>
> Studies python not to be possible on first to become, needs to proceed
> in an orderly way
>
> Since what I entered in English was something like "Yes, Python has a
> future. But it will take some study". Perhaps you can tell me whether
> your translation gives the correect flavor. I'm pretty sure the
> babelfish mangled my intent.
>
> regards
>   Steve
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ROFL

I would not recomend using babalfish to translate between Chinese and
English.  It does a *horrible* job at that.

But then in this particular case, it was able to convey what you
wanted to say - in a rather awkward fashion.  :-)